West Chicago Crime
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Dad recounts son's heroic actions when NIU gunman struckFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Days after his death, Dan Parmenter is still making his father proud. The 20-year-old sophomore from Westchester was one of five people shot and killed at Northern Illin...
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The few students on campus are sticking togetherFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Beth Cooney and Brittney Ginter sat in NIU's Village Commons Bookstore Monday afternoon tying one red-and-black memorial ribbon after another. The sophomores, each clad ...
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Group will protest at two victims' services todayFeb 17, 2008 10:00 pm - The group that has protested at funerals of military personnel killed in the Iraq War announced Sunday they will picket the services of two victims of the Northern Illin...
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Suburban churches mourn their ownFeb 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Christ Church of Oak Brook has felt the impact of a national tragedy before. On Sept. 11, 2001, Associate Pastor Jeff Mladenik died when American Airlines Flight 11 stru...
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A call for more gun control lawsFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - After 60 minutes in agonizing limbo as she waited to hear if her son, a Northern Illinois University student, survived Thursday's massacre, Connie Catellani doesn't want...
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Quiet 'angel' made her mark as a singerFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - Sweet and quiet is how friends and former instructors at Glenbard North High School remember Gayle Dubowski. But put her in a choir robe and on some risers -- that's whe...
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NIU had plans in place for disasterFeb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - As they hunkered down behind locked doors, one common thread emerged from Northern Illinois University faculty and staff in the midst of the shooting crisis Thursday. Pl...
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Virginia Tech president responds to NIU shootingsFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - The following is a letter written Friday to Northern Illinois University President John Peters from Charles Steger, president of Virginia Tech, in response to the ma...
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Bolingbrook student recounts panic in classroom during shootingFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - DEKALB -- Desiree Smith wasn't supposed to be in the classroom. The senior journalism major had picked up the geology class at the last minute after dropping another cou...
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Events, classes canceled at NIUFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Northern Illinois University leaders Thursday outlined plans for getting through the difficult days ahead. The university's DeKalb campus as well as satellite facilities...